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Women pay more for car insurance in Washington, though they don’t cause more crashes

March 21, 2024, 5:50pm Newsletter

Women pay more than $100 a year more than men for car insurance in Washington, though they aren’t necessarily worse drivers, according to a study conducted for Women’s History Month. Read story

A police vehicle is parked outside Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho, on Wednesday, March 20, 2024.   Three Idaho corrections officers were shot as a suspect staged a brazen attack to break Skylar Meade, a prison inmate out of the Boise hospital overnight. Two of the officers were shot by the suspect early Wednesday. The third was shot and wounded by a police officer when police mistook the correctional officer for the suspect.  (Sarah A.

Idaho prison gang member and accomplice sought after ambush and escape are in custody, police say

A police vehicle is parked outside Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho, on Wednesday, March 20, 2024.   Three Idaho corrections officers were shot as a suspect staged a brazen attack to break Skylar Meade, a prison inmate out of the Boise hospital overnight. Two of the officers were shot by the suspect early Wednesday. The third was shot and wounded by a police officer when police mistook the correctional officer for the suspect.  (Sarah A.

March 21, 2024, 2:25pm Latest News

A white supremacist Idaho prison gang member and an accomplice were in custody Thursday after a brazen attack to free the inmate as he was being transported from a Boise hospital, authorities said. Read story

Restoring grizzly bears to Washington's North Cascades is again under consideration.

Feds want grizzly bears back in Washington’s North Cascades

Restoring grizzly bears to Washington's North Cascades is again under consideration.

March 21, 2024, 2:13pm Latest News

The National Park Service and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service published a final series of proposals Thursday calling for reintroducing grizzly bears to the North Cascades. Read story

FILE - Portland police stand in a street during protests, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020, in Portland. City leaders in Portland, on Wednesday, March 20, 2024, are reviving a protest response team though some residents are skeptical and say their confidence was eroded by the police response to 2020 racial justice protests in the city.

Portland revives police department protest response team amid skepticism stemming from 2020 protests

FILE - Portland police stand in a street during protests, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020, in Portland. City leaders in Portland, on Wednesday, March 20, 2024, are reviving a protest response team though some residents are skeptical and say their confidence was eroded by the police response to 2020 racial justice protests in the city.

March 21, 2024, 1:21pm Latest News

A revamped protest response team is being launched in Portland's police department, despite skepticism from some residents who said their confidence was eroded by the police response to 2020 racial justice protests in the city. Read story

Teen driver blamed for crash that kills woman and 3 children in a van near Seattle

March 21, 2024, 11:33am Northwest

A woman driving a van with five children inside was killed along with three of the kids when a teenage driver caused a multivehicle crash in a suburb of Seattle, authorities said. Read story

FILE - This image taken Jan. 7, 2024, and released by the National Transportation Safety Board, shows a section of the Boeing 737-9 Max that lost a panel in flight, in Portland, Ore. Boeing says the head of its 737 jetliner program is leaving the company immediately, paving the way for the aircraft maker to appoint new leadership at the troubled division.

Major airlines want to hear how Boeing plans to fix problems in the manufacturing of its planes

FILE - This image taken Jan. 7, 2024, and released by the National Transportation Safety Board, shows a section of the Boeing 737-9 Max that lost a panel in flight, in Portland, Ore. Boeing says the head of its 737 jetliner program is leaving the company immediately, paving the way for the aircraft maker to appoint new leadership at the troubled division.

March 21, 2024, 11:31am Business

The heads of leading U.S. airlines want to meet with Boeing and hear the aircraft manufacturer’s strategy for fixing quality-control problems that have gained attention since a panel blew out of an Alaska Airlines jetliner in January, people familiar with the situation said Thursday. Read story

The Port of Longview stretches along the Columbia River at Longview.

Clean Air Agency: Drax started construction prematurely at Longview port

The Port of Longview stretches along the Columbia River at Longview.

March 21, 2024, 7:50am Business

The Southwest Washington Clean Air Agency is alleging a company proposing a wood-pellet factory at the Port of Longview has started construction without having an air discharge permit — a violation of agency rules. Read story

Biden nominates Rebecca Pennell to serve as federal district court judge for Eastern Washington

March 21, 2024, 7:42am Northwest

President Joe Biden intends to nominate a Washington Court of Appeals judge to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington, the White House said Wednesday. Read story

The Oso landslide scar is seen near a sign at the memorial site on Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024, in Oso, Wash. The mountainside collapsed, obliterating a neighborhood and 43 lives in the worst landslide disaster in U.S. history.

10 years after the deadliest U.S. landslide, climate change is increasing the danger

The Oso landslide scar is seen near a sign at the memorial site on Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024, in Oso, Wash. The mountainside collapsed, obliterating a neighborhood and 43 lives in the worst landslide disaster in U.S. history.

March 21, 2024, 7:42am Latest News

After the mountainside collapsed, obliterating a neighborhood and 43 lives in the worst landslide disaster in U.S. history, Jessica Pszonka made a promise — to herself, to her bereft parents and to her late sister, who was buried along with two young sons, her husband and in-laws. Read story

Parts of Tacoma, Olympia susceptible to tsunamis. New regulations aim to make them safer

March 21, 2024, 7:41am Northwest

Buildings in Washington might get safer now that new building codes to help protect against tsunamis are in effect. Read story